# Sura  54 - The Moon

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> SURA LIV (54) - The Moon         Mecca - 55 verses           (XLIX - 76)      
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        The hour hath approached and the moon hath been cleft:
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>        But whenever they see a miracle they turn aside and say, This is
> well-devised magic.
>  
>        And they have treated the prophets as impostors, and follow their own
> lusts; but everything is unalterably fixed.
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>        A message of prohibition had come to them -
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>        Consummate wisdom - but warners profit them not.
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>        Quit them then.  On the day when the summoner shall summon to a stern
> business,
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>        With downcast eyes shall they come forth from their graves, as if they
> were scattered locusts,
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>        Hastening to the summoner.  "This," shall the infidels say, "is the
> distressful day."
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>        Before them the people of Noah treated the truth as a lie.  Our servant
> did they charge with falsehood, and said, "Demoniac!" and he was rejected.
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> 54:10  Then cried he to his Lord, "Verily, they prevail against me; come thou
> therefore to my succour."
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>        So we opened the gates of Heaven with water which fell in torrents,
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>        And we caused the earth to break forth with springs, and their waters
> met by settled decree.
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>        And we bare him on a vessel made with planks and nails.
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>        Under our eyes it floated on: a recompence to him who had been rejected
> with unbelief.
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>        And we left it a sign: but, is there any one who receives the warning?
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>        And how great was my vengeance and my menace!
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>        Easy for warning have we made the Koran - but, is there any one who
> receives the warning?
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>        The Adites called the truth a lie: but how great was my vengeance and my
> menace;
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>        For we sent against them a roaring wind in a day of continued distress:
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> 54:20  It tore men away as though they were uprooted palm stumps.
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>        And how great was my vengeance and my menace!
>  
>        Easy for warning have we made the Koran - but, is there any one who
> receives the warning?
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>        The tribe of Themoud treated the threatenings as lies:
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>        And they said, "Shall we follow a single man from among ourselves?  Then
> verily should we be in error and in folly.
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>        To him alone among us is the office of warning entrusted?  No! he is an
> impostor, an insolent person."
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>        To-morrow shall they learn who is the impostor, the insolent.
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>        "For we will send the she-camel to prove them: do thou mark them well,
> O Saleh, and be patient:
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>        And fortell them that their waters shall be divided between themselves
> and her, and that every draught shall come by turns to them."
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>        But they called to their comrade, and he took a knife and ham-strung
> her.
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> 54:30  And how great was my vengeance and my menace!
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>        We sent against them a single shout; and they became like the dry sticks
> of the fold-builders.
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>        Easy have we made the Koran for warning - but, is there any one who
> receives the warning?
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>        The people of Lot treated his warning as a lie;
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>        But we sent a stone-charged wind against them all, except the family of
> Lot, whom at daybreak we delivered,
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>        By our special grace - for thus we reward the thankful.
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>        He, indeed, had warned them of our severity, but of that warning they
> doubted.
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>        Even this guess did they demand: therefore we deprived them of sight,
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>        And said, "Taste ye my vengeance and my menace;"
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>        And in the morning a relentless punishment overtook them.
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> 54:40  Easy have we made the Koran for warning - but, is there any one who
> receives the warning?
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>        To the peoples of Pharaoh also came the threatenings:
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>        All our miracles did they treat as impostures.  Therefore seized we them
> as he only can seize, who is the Mighty, the Strong.
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>        Are your infidels, O Meccans, better men that these?  Is there an
> exemption for you in the sacred Books?
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>        Will they say, "We are a host that lend one another aid?"
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>        The host shall be routed, and they shall turn them back.
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>        But, that Hour is their threatened time, and that Hour shall be most
> severe and bitter.
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>        Verily, the wicked are sunk in bewilderment and folly.
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>        On that day they shall be dragged into the fire on their faces.  "Taste
> ye the touch of Hell."
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>        All things have we created after a fixed decree:
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> 54:50  Our command was but one word, swift as the twinkling of an eye,
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>        Of old, too, have we destroyed the like of you - yet is any one warned?
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>        And everything that they do is in the Books;
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>        Each action, both small and great, is written down.
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>        Verily, amid gardens and rivers shall the pious dwell.
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>        In the seat of truth, in the presence of the potent King.
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> — *Sura  54 - The Moon*